Which speakers for open plan dining room and how to connect?

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Bebs (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 12:29 GMT
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Hi all,

I’m not particularly ‘techy’ so thought I would seek the help of like minded others that perhaps are.

We are currently rebuilding/remodelling our house to the extent that only 2 gable ends were left standing, roof off, second floor totally demolished and ripped out, you get the picture.

Our new L shaped open plan kitchen - dining room - lounge area will be 100 square meters. In the TV end of the lounge I am installing a BV11-55 with BL5 front speakers and BL3 rears, a Beocenter 2 connected to the BV11 by a custom made cable from Steve at Soundsheavenly, and a beogram 5500 into the BC2 socket box via a Aux input switch box also from Soundsheavenly 

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Bebs (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 12:47 GMT
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Trying to upload pics but am not able to for some reason.

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Hiort
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 13:41 GMT
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How about another pair of BL3:s connected to the BL3s but placed in the dining area (with a wall mounted BL11?)? You can create a speaker group for those alone, and also a combined speaker group if you want to play all speakers at the same time.  

Location: Sweden

My B&O Icons:

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Posted February 15, 2018 at 13:43 GMT
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Brian wrote:

Trying to upload pics but am not able to for some reason.

Easiest to do via the app on eg an iphone.

 

Location: Sweden

My B&O Icons:

Beovision-11.png Beovision-11.png
Beosound-Emerge.png Beosound-Emerge.png
Beoremote-One.png Beoremote-One.png
Beoplay-M5.png Beoplay-M5.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-Earset.png Beoplay-Earset.png
Beoplay-Beosound1.png Beoplay-Beosound1.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
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Bebs (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 13:54 GMT
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Good suggestion but I think an elongated speaker might sit better on the long thin pillars.

Forgive my ignorance but are you saying it is possible to create a separate speaker group on the BV11-55 for the dining room? It is my understanding that the BV11 only has 5 RJ45 inputs which I guess is why you suggest connecting the extra BL3s to the existing rear BL3s - but surely this would mean that all the BL3s would play at the same time?

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Duels (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 14:14 GMT
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Brian, I just love that you have a cigar lounge.
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Mikipedia (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 14:41 GMT
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To my knowledge you can do two speaker per rj45 fitting. I only have 2 rj45’s in use with two bl50’s and two bl18’s. So 5 rj45 fittings would technically give you wired connections for 10 speakers. I also made a second group for when i want to only use either of the speakers or even just the tv. Options with speaker groups are endless, you can even select just one speaker out of all of them if you so wished😎

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Bebs (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 16:29 GMT
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Thank you, I was in no way intending to boast..just slipped out with the mention of the 2 x BS35s. About 20 sq meter room, glass floor to ceiling walk-in humidor 2 meters wide by 1 meter deep: Havanas only. Leather chairs, dimmed lighting - a good place for the boys to kick back :-)

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Bebs (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 16:41 GMT
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Thanks Mikipedia, I had no idea about the speaker group options on a BV11... I just bought the TV and stored it away until our house I finished.

So, in that case I should be able to just run some powerlink rj45 cables from the dining room and simply plug into the BV11 and select those two speakers as a group? ..and make a separate group for the 4 speakers around the TV and another group for all 6 speakers? I hadn’t realised it was that simple if that is indeed the case..

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Mikipedia (archived2)
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Posted February 15, 2018 at 20:35 GMT
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That’s more or less what i do on my eclipse yes. I pretty sure it’s the same on an avant, iam not 100% sure on how it works with the bv11 but i think it’s very similar to an avant so it should work the same(i never owned a bv11). If you can make speaker groups it’ll deffinately work like that. It’s a wonderfull option😁
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